Sept. 12, In the midst of the controversy which has arisen as to the exact amount of the growing or non-growing, smoking or non-smoking of opium in Hunan, special attention may be called to the judicial and illuminating article by our Changsha correspondent, which we published two days ago. Even the most enthusiastic of the champions of Hunan's innocence will admit the convincing nature of the facts which our correspondent marshals in his survey: and the "net result,"' if "'not in accordance with either side,"' is one that can hardly be doubted, on the face of it. As will be remembered, Hunan is not the only province about whose!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.